TNAG-1090-FCO40-1340-Illegal-immigration-from-China-to-Hong-Kong-of-refugees-orig-1981 — Page 67

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CONFIDENTIAL

機密

MEMO

From: Commissioner of Police (DSB) To Political Adviser

Idy!KK 341/2

Ref.: SF/404-123

Tel.: 5-284284 Ext. 204

Date:

15th April 1981

5 MAY 1981

DESK OFFICER

INDEX

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No Maş

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REGISTRY Action Taken

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Vietnamese Refugees Ex-China - L/M 1252

On 18th March 1981 a wooden rowing boat sized 10 by 2 metres, of the type used in the Chinese river cargo trade, and bearing no registration markings, entered Hong Kong with 37 ethnic Chinese passengers aboard (L/M 1252).

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The passengers initially claimed to have come from Haiphong but admitted after questioning that the boat had in fact departed on 11th March 1981 from Mafeng (7456/2075), Sanshui (0005/3055) County, Guangdong Province, travelled down the Bei Jiang (North River),(0554/3008) via Jiangmen (3068/7024) and Modaumen (4333/0430/7024), entering Macau on 14th March 1981. On 18th March they left Macau and reached Hong Kong later the same day.

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They insisted that many of their number had never been resettled on Overseas Chinese Farms in China, but had formed part of a group which left Haiphong on 12th August 1979. Two of the L/M 1252 group were "double backers" who had entered Hong Kong in September 1979 and been repatriated to China in October 1980 (L/M 900 and L/M 902).

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Further enquiries established that most (29 of 37) of the group had in fact come from Dawang Overseas Chinese Farm, Sihui (0934/2585) County, Guangdong Province; the rest were from other Overseas Chinese Farms as follows:

(a) Guangdong Province

Dawang Jingkou

29 4

(b) Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Changdun Fangcheng

1

2

(c) Fujian Province

Baizhuhu

5.

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1

TOTAL

37

A photograph of boat L/M 1252. is attached.

Distribution....

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